Mel Brooks and David Zucker - there are very few people who know silly, and they're usually hugely intelligent, because you have to be intelligent to get it. Like the Marx brothers. I love it.
I know what people like, and fortunately they seem to share my sense of humor.
Woody says I can make jokes, but I don't get them - I'm always looking deeper for the meanings.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Some people, they just don't get a joke.
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.
I don't really know jokes. I'm just in on the joke.
Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.
Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.
...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising. But not all surprising things are funny.
Knowing what jokes will work is second nature; you just feel it.
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.
Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.
If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.
Computers will understand sarcasm before Americans do.
Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.
A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!
It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.
When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.
Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?
